Article Contributed by Mountain Home … | Published on Monday, May 3, 2021
The latest single from Bluegrass at the Crossroads, the innovative collaborative project featuring artists drawn mostly from the rosters of Mountain Home Music Company and Organic Records, presents the series’ second ensemble, first heard on the January bluegrass gospel release, “Lift Your Voice, Bow Your Head.” Serving as a musical meeting ground for musicians working in a broad range of bluegrass styles, “On The Lonesome Breeze” showcases rich creativity, deep skills and a lot of musical muscle, too.
Sung by bassist Travis Book (Infamous Stringdusters) and written by him with series producer Jon Weisberger, “On The Lonesome Breeze” gets a robust treatment that offers distinctive instrumental work from award-winning banjo player Sammy Shelor (Lonesome River Band), fiddler Carley Arrowood, mandolinist Wayne Benson (IIIrd Tyme Out) and Fireside Collective’s Joe Cicero on guitar, wi
While the pandemic has put a damper on much of Leftover Salmon s live-music fun, it hasn t stopped the Rocky Mountain-launched jamgrass band from recording a new batch of rootsy and eclectic offerings over the past year. On the group s latest release,
Brand New Good Old Days, the band serves up a sizzling ten-track platter of its characteristically eclectic fare, with Greg Garrison, the group s longest-running bassist, producing the new release and singing one of his own songs, Left Unsung, an homage to the late Jeff Austin of Yonder Mountain String Band. Westword caught up with Garrison to discuss the new drop and the latest developments for Salmon.